√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1800-1849 | ?The little Frys found the hours very long when they sat in the large, rather austere drawing-room, trying not to fidg... | Elizabeth Fry | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I feel very unworthy this morning. Though the day appeared to begin well in a few words of solemn supplication after ... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Enabled publicly after "Reading" to cast my care upon our Henry Helper' | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Yesterday I was enabled after reading to cast my care wholly and publicly upon the great helper of the helpless, in w... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading over an old journal book. Ah saith my soul, how has the loving kindness and tender mercy of the A... | Elizabeth Fry | Elizabeth Fry | [Journal] | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1800-1849 | 'A chapter we read this morning tendered my spirit and raised it in aspirations to the God of my help. Describing by w... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | 2 Corinthians | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The 40th and 42nd Psalms spoke comfort to me this morning, and I may say they greatly expressed the language of my sp... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Having poured forth my soul in prayer, and having exhorted my household to live in the love and fear of the Lord, I h... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (Esther) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I told no one my state until about the time to get up. I then dressed. I felt bound to have my husband, children, my ... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Upon reading the 2nd Chap. in Deuteronomy I felt this verse so much the acknowledgement of my heart, though all the w... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (Deuteronomy) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'These words in Eccles. struck me much. Ch. II v 21 & 22: "Marvel not at the works of sinners, but trust in the Lord a... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (Ecclesiastes) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I paid a very interesting visit to two female convict ships with my dear sister E. Fry and cousin Sarah last 6th day,... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The first day before leaving home I must also describe if I can. It was one of the most interesting nature. In the fi... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My sisters Catherine, Rachel, Chenda and myself had a very remarkable morning, I felt most easy to stay at home from ... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On the morning of the New Year we assembled almost all our large household, and many guests, principally young ones. ... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I then went to town, and at Newgate, where I went under feelings of rather deep concern, found unexpectedly [underlin... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have lately been reading some of my old journals in the year 1801. It has been very affecting to me; In what a low ... | Elizabeth Fry | Elizabeth Fry | Journals | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1800-1849 | 'We spent a cheerful, sober evening, until a general family Reading, when several joined our interesting party. We rea... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (Colossians) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Last sixth day a very interesting time at Newgate, numbers there, clergy, some nobility, a sheriff, [underline] many ... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I felt low and naturally prone to be irritable, and from the deep feeling of the difficulties in doing my part toward... | Elizabeth Fry | C.H.V. Bogatsky | Golden Treasury for the Children of God | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Our wedding day twenty nine years since we married! My texts for the morning are applicable: "Our light affliction wh... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (Corinthians) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the evening our dear brother Buxton dined with us, and spent the evening; and after our Reading I had to return th... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The last time I parted with those in the Ship Mary such a scene all around me, when I parted from them, probably for ... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My spirit is however brought low before the Lord, on behalf of some most dear - ah, the unutterable conflict that giv... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We have been favoured the last two days to have all our fifteen children around us ... After dinner we walked a littl... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'dined at Lord Bexley's, afterwards led to many fears - worry about showing off - But a few words in the Proverbs enco... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (Proverbs) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I returned from Brighton the day before yesterday having felt a drawing of love to visit the Friends; and to attend t... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[came home to find one of her sons drinking ale with some men with fireworks] I slept only at short intervals, up and... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'New Years Day - fourteen children to dine with us - had meant to read them my concentrated journal of the year; but c... | Elizabeth Fry | Elizabeth Fry | Journal | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1800-1849 | 'And in the evening strength was given me with a very large party to speak a little on the subject of slavery and then... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Last evening we had more than fifty guests, some influential persons of this world, young and old, French and English... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (Isaiah) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the evening we had many young women but hardly any men. Our great object was to stimulate them in every good word ... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We had a large meeting at one of the pasteurs at Aix en Provance the few Protestants there and their Pastor requested... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At Nismes we found a large party at one of the Pasteurs, where we had some further conversation on District Societies... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I also had a serious reading of the Holy Scriptures with many English, who came to see us at our hotel, and a time of... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We were sent for to visit Prince and Princess Charles and their children and paid them an agreeable and I hope not un... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I had then to enter a drawing room full of company to receive numbers of foreigners, and our ambassador Lord William ... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the evening we had a very large party to our reading and worship. I should think nearly a hundred persons ... we h... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After breakfast, I believed it better to propose reading in the Bible, but I felt doing it, particularly as my brothe... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I again felt some difficulty at reading the Bible, however, I got through well. George Dilwyn encouraging me, by sayi... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'George Dilwyn said, for our encouragement this morning, that he had seen, since he had been with us, the efficacy of ... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was up in pretty good time, dressed by eight, and after reading, settled my great housekeeping accounts' | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After reading a little, I went some way off to see a poor woman' | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | [unknown, possibly Bible] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Yesterday I went to the workhouse to spend the evening with the children; a prospect I have had in view for some time... | Elizabeth Fry | Frederick Smith | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the evening, after reading at Earlham, I was greatly helped in prayer, for my brothers and sisters, who were all p... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After poor John's funeral, I wished the servants, and those who attended, and were disposed to do so, to come and rea... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (New Testament) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Yesterday I experienced liveliness of spirit, without any apparent cause; nothing but free mercy and grace, for I thi... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At last I have been enabled to accomplish my desire in having the greater part of our family here, present at the Scr... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dec 1816 - Fry recommences visits to Newgate prison: 'On her second visit, she was, at her own request, left alone amo... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (New Testament) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ms journal of Sophia de C-, one of the ladies of the visiting Society for Newgate, entry dated 2 May 1817: 'Rose early... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fry explains reading to prisoners to Committee of House of Commons on the Prisons of the Metropolis, 27 Feb 1818: 'our... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The last time that Mrs Fry was on board the Maria, whilst she lay at Deptford, was one of those solemn and interestin... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Extract of letter from Lady Mackintosh to E. Fry: 'I have had a note from Sir James - "I dined Saturday, June 3rd, at ... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (Ephesians) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Recollections of Miss Young, who accompanied her father, Captain Young, to female convict ships at Woolwich: 'On board... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Journal 20 Dec 1837: 'Afterwards I went to Clapham to visit a poor dying converted Jew, who had sent a letter to beg m... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Journal 20 Dec 1837: 'Afterwards I went to Clapham to visit a poor dying converted Jew, who had sent a letter to beg m... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Journey into Scotland in Aug 1834 with husband and two daughters: 'At Kenmore, they enjoyed a quiet Sunday and tolerab... | Elizabeth Fry | Joseph John Gurney | Letter to a Friend on the Authority, Purpose and Effects of Chritianity | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Journal of Miss Fraser, Newgate prison visitor, dated 29 Nov 1834: 'I spent an interesting time in Newgate, Mrs Fry an... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Visit to France, 1838, accompanied by Joseph Fry, friend Josiah Forster, and Lydia Irving. Letter to children, Abbevil... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Visit to France, 1838, accompanied by Joseph Fry, friend Josiah Forster, and Lydia Irving. Letter to children, Abbevil... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Visit to France, 1838, accompanied by Joseph Fry, friend Josiah Forster, and Lydia Irving. Letter to children, Abbevil... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (New Testament) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Aug 1838, journey to Scotland with sister in law E. Fry, friend John Sanderson, and from 15th, William Ball, a Quaker ... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Aug 1838, journey to Scotland with sister in law E. Fry, friend John Sanderson, and from 15th, William Ball, a Quaker ... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Aug 1838, journey to Scotland with sister in law E. Fry, friend John Sanderson, and from 15th, William Ball, a Quaker ... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Journal, Boulogne 28 May 1843: 'The afternoon of the Sabbath I paid a distressing visit to the St Lazare Prison; such ... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Evidence of E. Fry to parliamentary Select Committee - Fry explains that she is careful in her prison readings to have... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (Old Testament) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Day on which E. Fry read the new rules to the female prisoners at Newgate: 'when this business was concluded, one of t... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (New Testament) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Officials invited into Newgate to see the success of E. Fry's new prison routine: 'In compliance with this appointment... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'in expressing our acknowledgement of the good they have done, it is our duty to point out those parts of their procee... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 24pp pamphlet describing a reading by Mrs Fry to the female prisoners at Newgate, at which the author was present. pp.... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (New Testament) | Print: Book |